Crime in PO20 3

The PO20 3 postcode sector, in the PO (Portsmouth) postcode area, with most records published by Sussex Police.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 251 street-crime records for PO20 3 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 20.1% more than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.

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Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

251

Share of PO20

10.6%

Year-on-year

+20.1%

PO20 3 holds 10.6% of the 2,379 records assigned to PO20 in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	18
October 2025	20
November 2025	15
December 2025	15
January 2026	17
February 2026	22
March 2026	34
April 2026	34
May 2026	14
June 2026	29
July 2026	17
August 2026	16

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

14% of this area's records sit at postcodes created after Census Day 2021, whose residents the census could not count, so no rate is shown.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Category mix compared

Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Sussex Police.

Category	PO20 3	PO20	Force
Violence and sexual offences	38.6%	36.4%	31.7%
Anti-social behaviour	20.7%	24.5%	20.9%
Shoplifting	10.8%	5.5%	11.4%
Public order	7.2%	7.5%	8.0%
Other theft	4.8%	5.8%	6.0%
Criminal damage and arson	4.0%	9.1%	7.2%
Vehicle crime	3.6%	2.5%	3.3%
Burglary	2.8%	2.1%	2.5%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for PO20 3 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	183
2022	160
2023	215
2024	163
2025	228
2026 (part year)	183

Limits to keep in mind

Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Full detail is on the methodology page and in what a postcode district crime page shows, which covers sectors too.

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Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district in Brighton

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 5,171 Census 2021 residents of PO20 3.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.

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Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

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This page updates as new months are published, so a citation needs the months shown and the date you read it. One click selects the whole citation. The CSV holds this page's monthly and category figures for PO20 3 postcode sector, with the same source and months.

CrimeMapsUK. PO20 3 postcode sector: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/sectors/po20-3/

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